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Decision-making methodology in environmentally-conditioned ship operations based on ETD–ETA windows of opportunity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 July 2021

Tommaso Fabbri Open the ORCID record for Tommaso Fabbri [Opens in a new window]  and
Raul Vicen-Bueno
Tommaso Fabbri*
Affiliation:
NATO STO Centre for Maritime Research & Experimentation (CMRE), La Spezia, Italy
Raul Vicen-Bueno
Affiliation:
NATO STO Centre for Maritime Research & Experimentation (CMRE), La Spezia, Italy
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*Corresponding author. E-mail: tommaso.fabbri@cmre.nato.int
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Abstract

This paper presents a methodology to support the decision-making process during the planning of ship operations. The methodology is designed with the aim of identifying and providing the operator with the best Estimated Time of Departure (ETD)–Estimated Time of Arrival (ETA) window of opportunity to execute the journey/operation between two predefined locations. To achieve this purpose, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) stability criteria are exploited in the process to formulate an operational safety criterion based on fuzzy reasoning as a function of the METeorological and OCeanographic (METOC) and sailing conditions. This allows for the analysis of the set of Pareto routes computed by a weather routing systems relying on a multi-objective set-up. The proposed methodology is tested in an operational scenario in the Mediterranean Sea.

Keywords

weather routingdecision supportdecision makingmaritime safetyPareto frontETDETAMETOC
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Research Article
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The Journal of Navigation , Volume 74 , Issue 6 , November 2021 , pp. 1219 - 1237
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Copyright © NATO STO CMRE, 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Royal Institute of Navigation

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